Tim Sykes Interview

[Andy Nguyen]

If you work in finance, you probably have heard him. Many of us here have met him in person back in 2007.
If you don't know who Tim Sykes is, here is a quick recap:
With $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah gift money during senior year of high school, he turned into a fully audited pretax sum of $1.65 million from 1999 to 2002. How did he do it? Penny stock.
He is one character in the "Wall Street Warriors" Season I.

How is he doing these days? In the following interview with Mixergy (I love this website), Sykes revealed that for 2010, he did $1.3 million in revenue at an 85-90% profit margin selling DVDs and newsletters on his website

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[Scooot]

One of the all time investing greats...

On a more serious note, I do miss WSW...I wish they'd still make that show somewhere.

 

[Connor]

WSW was a good show.

Anyone read Tim's book, An American Hedge Fund? Curious if it's worth the read.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Why didn't I mention Tim Sykes is a member on Quantnet
We discussed his book a while ago. In fact, I got his book signed when we invited him over for a talk few years ago.

https://www.quantnet.com/threads/tim-sykes-an-american-hedge-fund.752/